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I want to be one of those people! Yet ever since I was a kid and to this day I like having a full well balanced meal at the end of the day, and usually skip dessert. I am skinny, but I feel the absence of the desire for ice cream meals is a blight on my life.

I went to the freezer and pulled out ice cream for breakfast, thought for a second, and said aloud "I am an adult. I am allowed to do this." Then ate mint-chocolate chip and read the paper. Take that, kids.

I had a speaker come talk to my class about these pools once. Apparently, I believe this is the best reason you should get one, is you can grow some wasabi root in it and some lil shrimps and have sashimi while sun bathing.

I can't speak to this. But from what I read it is rare. I would also like to see the state of the ponds where the n. fowelri was found. I imagine a pond balanced with good flora and fauna makes it tough for this diseaseprotist ameoba to occur. Might be a good question for a few of the natural pool companies out there.

The amoeba is quite common in the southern states. If you go to the southern states like Florida and Texas, they're common in murky, warm standing bodies of water. Infection, however, is quite rare because most people know better than to jump into a dirty, murky pond that smells like shit. Now, if more people go swimming in those dirty, murky pond, the infection rate would go up. So, N. fowleri infection is rare mainly because hardly anyone swims in dirty pond water where the organisms thrive. However, in a pool like that, there is less of a chance that it grows because the water is disturbed.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the protist killed 33 people between 1998 and 2007. In the 10 years from 2001 to 2010, 32 infections were reported in the U.S. Of those cases, 30 people were infected by contaminated recreational water and two people were infected by water from a geothermal (naturally hot) drinking water supply.[32]

About sixty people in the past twenty years have been infected, and a few of them got it from tap water. It's not exactly a major threat, especially when you compare it to deaths from drowning (6500 a year).

Snakes can easily be prevented by removing tall grass and plants around the pool (the large plants in the pool shown in the picture are part of the filter, I can only assume snakes are not an issue for this particular pool based on location) and by keeping the area around the pool free of clutter and food scraps. If a snake doesn't find food near the pool or its not an ideal place to live (lots of people little to no shelter) then it won't want to live there.

Fuck that shit. Call me a wuss but I want my pool sanitized and filtered and clean. It's 2012, a lot of things we do can be studied, measured, engineered so I don't get some random brain eating bacteria to eat my nose away before killing me.

"Trampolines are slippery when wet, hey let's put one in front of a pool next to the edge so one kid can successfully jump in ONCE while the rest fall and break something", said no one when doing this.

My parents never believed in giving safety nets. So naturally I grew up with a trampoline with no spring cover. I can't count the number of times I've fallen off, but I only landed on the springs once. Let me tell you, if someone twice your size double bounces you and you come down on the springs it hurts.

And if you happen to be a male it can be especially painful.

Imagine if you will when the spring reaches your nuts the shear terror when realizing not only is this spring going to crush your dignity. It is going to stretch then shrink back pinching your nether regions.

Funnest death trap ever in my opinion. Had fun. Would recommend it to any new parent.

A friend has one of these and to date (5 years) there have been no injuries worse than a sprained wrist.

I do find it amusing when people claim things are immediately dangerous. I drove the Nurburgring last Saturday, that seems dangerous too - and it is... but it's a damn site safer once you appreciate the risk. Ultimately people expect things to be perfectly safe and this is something that ironically incredibly is dangerous.

It seems to be rooted in a 'lawyer up' culture that is spreading from america.

When I was young we had one and when it was hot would set up the sprinkler spraying it and water would go everywhere as you jumped. Wasn't slippery at all surprisingly, and was a lot of fun. Still dangerous I am sure, no one was hurt though.

If you have underwater hard edges within reaching distance of an errant leap, you're going to have a bad time. A really bad time. A horrible time. Time in the hospital time. Broken neck time. Someone's going to sue you time. Time in the slammer time. Time to think of what an idiot you are for being so clever time.

This is so cool! It looks like it was a custom home project. If and when I own property, I would love something like this, but more like a water garden, instead of a swimming area. Perhaps even a greenhouse! If property is not possible, and indoor terrarium will do just fine. I just love plants and shit like this. Thank you for sharing the photo!

My first thought was running and jumping over the spring border of the trampoline is bound to lead an accident. I'd much prefer to see a springfree trampoline in that kind of application. Then I saw the underwater wall and decided it was just a bad idea all around (regardless of trampoline type). I'm getting old.